Pollution
Additional Oil Spill Response Organisation insurance can be provided for contracts where the liability regime is more onerous than permitted under International Group guidelines, as well as pollution general average cover for charterparties such as in the Exxonvoy 90, where preventive pollution costs cannot be passed on to charterers or cargo owners and so remain your responsibility.
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[AMENDED 22 JULY] On 21 July 2022 the European Union published a Maintenance and Alignment Package